On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On 29/07/13 16:09, Chad wrote:
I've always been in favor of getting rid of
voting entirely since
developers
don't use it for judging anything. Tried to
once before, but people seem
to
like using it for bookmarking or somesuch and I
didn't feel like fighting
about it.
I appreciate having votes on bugs, as a measure of the popularity of a
feature request. The Score extension would never have been implemented
and deployed if it wasn't for voting.
Maybe no developer other than me ever looks at vote counts, but maybe
other developers should start. WMF team priorities tend to be set
based on the opinions of a very small number of people. Sometimes it's
nice to know what users actually want most, rather than just what some
WMF staff member thinks they might like.
If we want to start using it I'm not inherently opposed to the idea. I
just don't like the status quo where people think it means something
when it (mostly) doesn't.
-Chad